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- Submitted-by: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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- In article <193se9INN4h7@ftp.UU.NET>, brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
- > ---Dan, still wondering why POSIX [:digit:] is better than Perl \d
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- Because \d is existing practice in a lot of programs that run on UNIX
- (not UNIX utilities as such) for the <DEL> character? Maybe the .2 people
- preferred not to confuse users of those programs? As long as they don't
- say you _can't_ use \d as an extension, no problem.
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- You can lie with statistics ... but not to a statistician.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 41
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